CTIA: Vodafone CEO warns against 4G standard wars
By: By Carol Wilson
LAS VEGAS--The wireless industry needs to rally behind a single 4G standard and not waste resources on technology wars in order to take full advantage of the massive opportunity of the mobile Internet, Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin said in his CTIA keynote address here today...
CTIA: Mobile social networking blooms
By: By Sarah Reedy
LAS VEGAS--Less than six months after Research In Motion (RIM) launched its Facebook-for-BlackBerry smartphone application at October’s CTIA conference, the company is announcing at this week’s show that the application has been downloaded 1 million times. With explosive growth like this, it is becoming harder to dismiss mobile social networking as a fad...
CTIA: Symbian adds database, location management
By: By Rich Karpinski
LAS VEGAS--To help enable more sophisticated mobile applications, operating system vendor Symbian this week at CTIA added an SQL-based database and a new location-based services architecture to its core mobile OS...
Q&A: NSN’s Spradley on the U.S. market
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia Siemens Networks North America chief Sue Spradley has been on the job only eight months, but her region has born results. Spradley talked with Telephony about her recent success in the U.S. as well as what it will take to win AT&T back as a wireless customer....
CTIA: Nokia adds WiMAX to the Internet Tablet
By: By Kevin Fitchard
LAS VEGAS--Nokia today unveiled the first standalone WiMAX data device for the North American market, a version of its N810 Internet tablet embedded with a WiMAX chip as well as Wi-Fi...
CTIA: Performance Technologies powers Pocket in Texas
By: By Carol Wilson
LAS VEGAS--Pocket Communications, a prepaid wireless carrier covering San Antonio and south Texas, is preparing to build on its success by expanding its network using Performance Technologies’ SEGway X401 signaling gear, the two companies announced here at CTIA...
CTIA: Level 3 takes hybrid approach to backhaul
By: By Carol Wilson
LAS VEGAS--Wireless backhaul has rapidly become not just a big market but a crowded field, with everyone from CLECs to cable companies to broadband wireless companies, not to mention wireline incumbents, looking to capture a piece of the 3G-4G buildouts...
CTIA: NewStep announces expanded partnerships
By: By Carol Wilson
LAS VEGAS--NewStep Networks today announced a partnership with embedded software platform maker D2 Technologies as well as new social network capabilities for its Converged Services Node. Both announcements are aimed at extending the reach of NewStep’s fixed-mobile convergence solutions for service providers...
CTIA: AT&T making mobile music simpler
By: By Carol Wilson
LAS VEGAS--AT&T is unveiling new mobile music capabilities in part to make it easier for even the non-hip cell phone user to begin taking their music on the road....
CTIA: Sprint debuts new phone but no Xohm
By: By Kevin Fitchard
LAS VEGAS--Though today was officially the first day of the second quarter, in which Sprint promised to commercially launch its WiMAX network in a handful of markets, CEO Dan Hesse didn’t use the keynote podium or the spectacle of CTIA to unveil the country’s first 4G network. What he did do was unveil a new, exclusive Samsung phone, the user interface of which Sprint and Samsung designed together...
CTIA: Virgin Group CEO defends MVNO model
By: By Sarah Reedy
LAS VEGAS--The mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) handset model remains a viable, low-cost alternative for consumers faced with economic downtimes, according to Sir Richard Branson, CEO of the Virgin Group...
CTIA: Microsoft updates mobile OS, browser
By: Rich Karpinski
LAS VEGAS--Microsoft used the keynote stage at CTIA in Las Vegas today to officially launch an expected minor update to its Windows Mobile operating system and preview a new version of its Internet Explorer Mobile browser slated for year's end....
CTIA: D2 targets Android for unified communications
By: Rich Karpinski
LAS VEGAS--Embedded telephony software maker D2 Technologies today demonstrated its new IP-based communications suite working alongside the Android mobile operating system, enabling phones running Google’s emerging platform to deliver an array of IP-based services....
CTIA: FCC’s Martin opposes Carterphone rules for wireless industry
By: By Carol Wilson
LAS VEGAS--Calling the U.S. wireless industry "the poster child for competition," FCC Chairman Kevin Martin today promised to recommend that Skype’s petition for federal rules to require an open wireless interface for all handsets be dismissed...
CTIA: Starent makes jump to GGSN
By: By Kevin Fitchard
LAS VEGAS--Global operator Vodafone has selected Starent Networks' core network to provide core network data and signaling nodes in Vodafone Germany’s network, marking Starent’s transformation from a vendor dealing solely with the CDMA core to a global equipment maker in the much larger GSM/UMTS world...
Motorola shows up Microsoft in white space tests
By: Rich Karpinski
On the heels of Google’s recent offer to help ‘white spaces’ broadband get off the ground, this weekend saw a rush of activity that leaves the future of this controversial technology very much in question....
CTIA: AT&T reveals mystery channel
By: By Sarah Reedy
LAS VEGAS--Building on Thursday’s announcement that AT&T’s delayed mobile TV services powered by MediaFLO, a subsidy of Qualcomm, are set to debut in May of this year, the wireless carrier today revealed that it has licensed a channel from Sony Pictures Television...
Leap launching first AWS market
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Leap Wireless said today it will launch commercial service in its first market using spectrum acquired in the Advanced Wireless Services auction...
Mobile Web changes app development game
By: By Rich Karpinski
The next generation of mobile application development is coming into focus, thanks to the emergence of more capable browsing technologies and software development kits from new players such as Apple and Google...
CTIA: Next-generation backhaul hits the floor
By: Sarah Reedy
Wireless backhaul vendors increase capacity, ease Ethernet migration...
SMS provides gateway to VoIP
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Two emerging service providers -- Raketu and Rebtel -- are borrowing a model used by discount calling card companies to bring VoIP to wireless networks...
The new service providers
By: By Rich Karpinski & Kevin Fitchard
"Service provider" and "network operator" are becoming independent terms in wireless. Read more of this feature article on how companies are evolving...
700 MHz: Meet the new operators -- same as the old operators
By: By Kevin Fitchard
If there were any surprises in the 700 MHz auction, it was that there were no surprises...
Google's new ploy
By: By Rich Karpinski
Just as it played a major role influencing the outcome of the 700 MHz auction -- despite not winning any spectrum -- Google recently called for unlicensed over-the-air TV spectrum, known as white space, to be used for broadband services, although it doesn't want to provide those services itself...
Reinventing the landline
By: By Sarah Reedy
Enterprises have several choices when it comes to telephony. IP phones sit on many office desks, but dual-mode voice-over-IP handsets and cellular-only offerings are becoming more common...
